I have just bought a Gateway Pentium 3 computer running M.E. off a friend, he has done a system restore before selling it to me and now I can't get onto the internet with it. Modem seems to work ok as I can hear it dialling and handshaking but as soon as it gets to the point of making connection the modem drops out.

Any ideas on what to try, my guess is it is a setting or something similar that has altered after the restore but I don't know enough about it to find out.